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New Work by Izaak Walton - - 257 



General James Wolfe . - - 257 



Notices of Ancient Libraries, No. 1., by 



Rev. B. H. Cowper - - - 258 



"Flowers of Anecdote," by H. Fleet- 

 wood Sheppard - - - - 259 

 PopiANA : — Pope's Works : "Three 

 Hours after Marriage" — "The Dun- 

 ciad " — Pope and Donne's Satires — 

 Lucretia Lindo — Pope and Handel - 260 

 Books burnt : Writings of Dugald 

 Stewart and Col. Stewart - - 261 



Minor Notfs : — Byron's Tomb, Har- 

 row — Sir Walter Raleigh — Professor 

 Porson — Slormonism — Letter from 

 Coleridge — Agnew's " Irish Church- 

 man's Almanac for 185S" —Puritan 

 Similes — Railroad and Steamboat 

 Accidents in the United States — Earl 

 of Galway or Galloway - - - 262 



Qderies: — 

 The Poetical d Kempis - . - 261 



Minor Queries: — Artificial Teeth 



New Silkworm — Barker's Common 

 Prayer — Old Engraving — Relative 



Value of Money temp. James J. 



Earls of Perche andMortain— Richard 

 Frewen, M.D. — Wake Family — 



" Rise and Growth of Fanaticism " 



Marino's '" Slaughter of the Inno- 

 cents " — Book-plates — Episcopalian 

 Churches, &c. in Scotland— Wells 

 Charters — " Dowlas, Lockerams, Vyt- 

 tres, OUonnes, Poldavys " _ Author 



of" Words of Jesus," &c. Prestbury 



Priory — Naval Action - - - 264 



Minor Queries with Answers ; 



Old Parr — Screw Plot — Huguenot 

 Colony at Portarlington — Lynde's 

 " Via Tuta " and " Via Devia " - 266 



Roundles, by A. Challsteth - - 267 



Portraits of Lord Lovat - - - 268 



Curious Incident, by W. Pinkerton - 269 



" The Telliamed," by Aiken Irving - 269 



Photographic Correspondence : — 

 Photography at Sea : Instantaneous 

 Positive Paper — Instantaneous Posi- 

 tive Paper prepared with Chloride of 

 Mercury and Nitrate of Silver— Ex- 

 hibition of Photographs at Amsterdam 

 — Ambrotype Likenesses - - 270 



Kepiiesto Minor Queries : Bishops' 



Arms — Monastery of Nutcelle — Ser- 

 pent's Eggs — Lord Mayors — Block 

 Book : " Siihede! Cronik " — " For 



wheresoe'er I turn," &c Genealogical 



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 Grafts and tlie Parent Tree — Boling- 

 broke's Advice to Swift — Henry Fitz- 

 james — " Charles Auchester " _ " I 

 dreamt that, buried," &c Hog- 

 manay—" Solyman," sc. - - 270 



Miscellaneous : — 

 Notes on Books, &c. 

 Books and Odd Volumes Wanted. 

 Notices to Correspondents. 



- 276 



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